Daily Current Affairs 24 August 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Monday, August 24, 2026. India observed its third National Space Day on August 23, where the ISRO Chairman set out an eight-launch plan for the financial year and a Gaganyaan timeline. The Supreme Court set aside the National Green Tribunal’s order on the Yamuna floodplains, holding that the Polluter Pays Principle requires proof of causation, a ruling that cuts in two directions at once. The Government announced that the RBI’s special swap facility had drawn USD 73 billion in under eleven weeks, and closed the FCNR(B) window a month early. India’s non-fossil capacity crossed 300 GW, a milestone that is routinely misreported as a generation figure and is not one. The BRICS Science Ministers adopted the Chennai Declaration under India’s chairship, the Biodiversity Authority released benefit-sharing funds in a case where the original claimers could not be traced, and the ninth National Security Strategies Conference directed AI analysis over fused intelligence. Today’s edition carries eight deep-dive articles, a full news roundup, editorial analyses from six newspapers and a practice quiz.

A note on this edition. It was first published on August 24 itself, when neither GKToday, PIB nor the newspaper aggregators had indexed same-day content, and it carried a single verified item as a result. This edition was rebuilt on August 28 from primary sources, and the editorial analyses were drawn directly from each newspaper’s own pages rather than from aggregators. The publishing lag was real; the gap it left was not permanent.